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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires
7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
IT is a very fortunate coincidence that we have never had the occasion to report a conflagration attended with serious loss in this district up to the present time, but the one it is our unfortunate lot to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the last Home News we had to record the destruction of a great theatre in our northern capital, and we have now to announce an accident of a similar nature. For the second time the old Surrey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE most terrible conflagration that has occurred in Philadelphia since the great fire of July, 1850, took place this morning. Before proceeding to narrate the horrors of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE inhabitants of Sydney and the suburbs were startled about half-past nine last evening, by the sudden appearance of a large fire; and in a short time severa thousands were assembled around St…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE unpleasant duty devolves upon us today of recording the burning of the above premises, situate in Sharp-street, Cooma, and the destruction of the whole of the stock therein. Considerable mystery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT half-past eight o'clock last night a fire, which proved most disastrous in its consequences, broke out in the premises of Messrs John Fraser and Co., at the corner of York and Barrack streets. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The great fire reported by telegraph was finally mastered, or rather burnt itself out, late on Wednesday night, after having traversed Stamboul (Constantinople proper) from the Golden Horn to the…
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